'Doomsday 2021' and Mayan conspiracy theories

Many people believe that the Mayans foretold the end of the world in 2012 and now there is a new theory that the ancients actually mentioned the year 2021 due to… mistake.

In 2012, thousands of people believed that the world would end on December 21, stemming from a Mayan prophecy. After that, this information was quickly forgotten.

But the Mayan calendar and the signs of its doom are now back in the public's consciousness as some believe the real demise of humanity should be 2021, not 2012.

Many people believe that 2021, not 2012 is the day of human doom.

Conspiracy theorists have blamed misinformation on translation errors and it is clear that 2021 and not 2012 will be the day of humanity's doom. They also point to what is known as the Mesoamerican long-counting calendar to both keep track of the past and predict the future.

The 2012 apocalypse theory originally came about because that particular date in the Gregorian calendar seems to correspond to the end of a 5,126-year cycle in the Mayan calendar. Many people assume that the end of the calendar means the end of time, or the end of the world in its current state.

A May 2012 poll found that 8% of adults fear the world will end that year, and at least one suicide is directly related to the apocalypse, but these worries is baseless. The end of the Mayan calendar simply meant the beginning of a new one the next day, with no particular calamity to the ancient civilization.

Astronomer Edwin Charles Krupp said: "There is no evidence that they have seen the calendar and world age ending with supernatural ability or disaster on December 21, 2012".

"If you recall on December 21, 2020, we had a lot of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes," one Twitter user said.

"Just happened to see the 2012 spin-off and it all started on December 21, 2012 but what if we misunderstand the Mayan calendar? Remember the sequence of events started 1 year earlier, if the date December 21, 2021 is 2012 so what?" , another commented.

Another continued: "What if the maker of the Mayan calendar had dyslexia and the world was supposed to end in 2021 and not 2012?"

Meanwhile, according to American pastor F. Kenton Beshore, 2021 will bring the rapture and return of Jesus as it is a "biblical generation" after the founding of Israel in 1948. .

Initially, he said it would happen in 1988 but the subsequent mathematical adjustment failed. Many users of the popular website Quora recently asked the online community for their thoughts on this theory.

Mayan expert Matt Riggsby gave a comprehensive answer in a recent share, summarizing why the theory is wrong.

" The meaning of 2012 is that it ends a cycle in the so-called "long-counting" calendar. Natural disasters and the end of the world have nothing to do with the Mayans . Those with occult tendencies, none of them are academic. pseudo-Mayan or Mayan language," said Matt Riggsby.